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Sculpture in Statuary Hall
Helen Keller
is a
bronze sculpture
depicting the
American author and political activist of the same name
by
Edward Hlavka
, installed in the
United States Capitol Visitor Center
's Emancipation Hall, in
Washington, D.C.
, as part of the
National Statuary Hall Collection
. The statue was gifted by the
U.S. state
of
Alabama
in 2009, and replaced one depicting
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
, which had been donated in 1908.
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On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Keller was added to the
National Statuary Hall Collection
, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
. It is displayed in the
United States Capitol Visitor Center
and depicts Keller as a seven-year-old child standing at a
water pump
. The statue represents the seminal moment in Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan. The pedestal base bears a quotation in raised Latin and braille letters: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
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The statue is the first one of a person with a disability and of a child to be permanently displayed at the
U.S. Capitol
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